Author: | Ethel Lina White | ISBN: | 9781471917226 |
Publisher: | Orion Publishing Group | Publication: | March 14, 2015 |
Imprint: | Orion | Language: | English |
Author: | Ethel Lina White |
ISBN: | 9781471917226 |
Publisher: | Orion Publishing Group |
Publication: | March 14, 2015 |
Imprint: | Orion |
Language: | English |
Oldtown is a picturesque, historic place, with a square of characterful houses nestling at its centre, and is home to retired colonial masters and friendly locals. A wealthy, reclusive sisterhood lives there too, in a large mansion, Cloisters; a group known locally as the 'Black Nuns', who are said to have extraordinary healing powers.
But a killer is at work in Oldtown, and a series of murders has thrown the inhabitants into blind, unreasoning terror, a fear of darkness and of strange sounds - sounds such as the pitiless beat of following footsteps.
Suddenly the town is plunged into a miasma of fear and superstition ...
Oldtown is a picturesque, historic place, with a square of characterful houses nestling at its centre, and is home to retired colonial masters and friendly locals. A wealthy, reclusive sisterhood lives there too, in a large mansion, Cloisters; a group known locally as the 'Black Nuns', who are said to have extraordinary healing powers.
But a killer is at work in Oldtown, and a series of murders has thrown the inhabitants into blind, unreasoning terror, a fear of darkness and of strange sounds - sounds such as the pitiless beat of following footsteps.
Suddenly the town is plunged into a miasma of fear and superstition ...